A federal appeals court allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a South Carolina law banning schools from ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7, "individual freedom," also dubbed the "stop WOKE" bill during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in ...

A Trump-appointed judge ruled against Gov. Ron DeSantis' "Stop WOKE Act," leaving Florida’s college speech limits blocked as a Supreme Court appeal looms.

A federal appeals court blocked a Florida law that limits race-based instruction in colleges and universities. The court's majority ruled the law violates the First Amendment rights of professors and ...

Alternative facts have always been with us, and they've always been used to cover up uncomfortable truths. Here's some history you'll want to rewrite in your memory.

(The Conversation) — American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose. (The Conversation) — On ...

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This Essay explains why the Supreme Court’s ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton will encourage anti-LGBTQ advocates to continue relying on concocted “harmful to children” claims to restrict ...

At a moment when many schools increasingly blur the line between education and activism, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is attempting something unfashionable: protecting classrooms as ...

Pericles, a leader of the first democracy in Athens, gave a famous speech extolling Athenian greatness at a funeral for fallen soldiers. “Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; ...